Marina Wheeler has written a book about her maternal origins. Her mother Dip – then a Sikh teenager – had survived the trauma of Punjab’s partition, of having to leave behind “the Sargodha Homestead, the beautiful house on Civil Lines, the garden and its fruit trees, indeed their whole way of life”. Link: https://thewire.in/books/marina-wheeler-new-book-revisits-partition-search-lost-homestead

In the fields out of Chandowal (3 miles out of Narowal) going towards Ali Abad more than 700 mainly Sikhs and many Hindus were massacred. Their bodies infested ponds and wells as well as sugar cane and cotton fields. Many were headless.. A Christian from the local community told my father this as their convoy had spent a sleepless night there before proceeding the next day towards Ali Beg and the Ravi Bridge. I have my father's diary. These people need to be acknowledged as having lived. - Message received from Manjit S Malhi, Aug 19th, 2020